NobleSir

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by NobleSir 10y ago
I don't actually expect it to be that expensive - myself and the authors of the paper have a working demo of the paper which I wrote myself in a couple of weeks (react-native clients / bigchaindb) and should be scalable to populat
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by NobleSir 10y ago
> It's using libsodium. This is an alarmist and false statement. Really? Does libsodium support pairing base cryptography? https://github.com/zcash/zcash/issues/714#issuecomment-21691...
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by NobleSir 10y ago
> In Cryptonote/Monero, it's hidden amongst a far smaller fraction of that set. Just wanted to point out that it's not that simple - what you are referring to is more like coinjoin level of anonymity. In Monero / Cryp
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by NobleSir 10y ago
My main point was not a claim on how a particular party should allocate their votes, or whether the primaries should be open to certain (or all) voters - rather the point of the paper is that the process can be completely transparent and cr
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by NobleSir 10y ago
I mean- I am likely never going to understand the science that goes into fixing a tumor- I just haven't trained to be a doctor, nor plan to go that route at any time in my life. However, you can surely bet that I trust a doctor to take
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by NobleSir 10y ago
>I doubt the layperson can understand how that technology works, and that is required for the voting to be democratic: Every voter has to be able to verify that there was no fraud. Not only mathematicians. This is probably a good point,
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by NobleSir 10y ago
I'm not saying its the case in Switzerland, but I get a ton of work done on my occasional three hour train commute. Driving definitely sucks though.
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by NobleSir 10y ago
Msys2 fills the need you seem to be having for me: https://msys2.github.io/ it uses pacman for a package manager and has everything I've needed. The only thing windows + msys2 missed for me was xcode for writing iOS ap
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by NobleSir 10y ago
Lua was my first programming language and it really is beautiful in that you can keep the whole language in your head and write entire programs without looking anything up. In fact - when I first started programming in other languages, it w
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by NobleSir 10y ago
Fully agree.
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by NobleSir 10y ago
The ones you write by hand? i.e. "written" equations
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by NobleSir 10y ago
If we are acting like this, then I use onenote for written math which google docs is fairly incapable of, also msft seems to take my privacy a bit more seriously, c.f. Timeline of fixes for logjam attack in popular browsers...
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by NobleSir 10y ago
Was going to post a sarcastic "looks awesome" with the same image
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by NobleSir 10y ago
I agree there may be some social barriers, but, for instance 4 of the 10ish math students that started the phd program in pure math at the same as me were filtered out by the written exams, another was pulled to industry in her second year,
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by NobleSir 10y ago
Or maybe research level mathematics is actually really difficult.
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by NobleSir 10y ago
That seems like a pretty safe idea.
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by NobleSir 11y ago
Using a blockchain for messaging means all your messages are stored until quantum encryption can come along to crack them open. Sure the usual distributed setup which blockchains like bitcoin have has advantages (namely in the hiding of met
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by NobleSir 11y ago
A good writeup, and exactly what I was saying by "trusted set-up." I think it's important that this trusted set-up (and your writeup ofc) are known by anyone who is going to store value in the currency, rather than just merel
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by NobleSir 11y ago
no problem - these things are quite interesting to me.
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by NobleSir 11y ago
A cool protocol, trusted setup though.
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by NobleSir 11y ago
Shameless plug for Monero https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1098.pdf (ring ct author here) edit: See also https://github.com/shennoether/ringct and https://github.com/monero-project&#x2
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by NobleSir 11y ago
I agree if it's touchscreen on laptop with no other form factor then it might be a gimmick. However, the ability to use a pen on my lenovo and later surface had a huge impact on the way I did math throughout grad school. Essentially, i
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by NobleSir 11y ago
I teach at a University - this semester, using an outlook.com account (I have my university e-mail forwarded there and some students send e-mails there directly), I've probably gotten 2-3 student e-mails in my spam folder / week f
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by NobleSir 11y ago
meh, if I wanted to run a full bitcoin node (for example, so I don't have to rely on Coinbase or spv wallets) with minimal hassle(sp?) on a new computer, it would save me some time / effort and presumably run in the background wit